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There are times when you want certain information on your computer protected from prying eyes. One way to protect your information is to encrypt your home directory. However, that does not protect your information when you are logged on to your computer. I’ve shown in the past how you can use Cryptkeeper to create an …

File system labels are not something you need to have in order to have a functioning Linux operating system, but they can make your computer easier to navigate when you have several disk partitions. In this post I’ll show how to add or edit a Linux file system label for ext2, ext3, and ext4 disk …

Conky is a light weight system monitor for Linux and BSD systems that displays information about your system on the root window. You’ve probably seen cool screenshots around the web that show a Linux desktop with all kinds of information printed to a part of the background. There’s a good chance that you were looking …

I recently received a Pogoplug as a birthday gift. If you’re not familiar with the Pogoplug, it is a small Linux based plug computer that allows you to share personal files over the web. You can think of it as your own personal cloud storage server. While you can always access your Pogoplug files through …

Xubuntu is a derivative of Ubuntu Linux that uses the Xfce desktop environment for the user interface. It is one of the official derivatives of Ubuntu Linux. The intent is for Xubuntu to be easy to use while being attractive and light on system resources. From the Xubuntu Strategy Document: The target audience for Xubuntu …